Hi, Thanks for your replies Ognyan Kulev, Marco Gerards and Alfred M. Szmidt. I forgot to give my hardware details: Intel Celeron (Mendacino), 500 MHz, 128 MB RAM.
"Marco Gerards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <quote> Perhaps your emailclient did this, but it should be one line: module (hd0,2)/hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed </quote> Actually, I am typing everything in one line in the grub prompt. I hit an enter while posting in the mailing list for readability. "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <quote> module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) </quote> I have to specify "module (hd0,2)/hurd/ext2fs.static for the command to succeed, else, I get this error: Error 15: file not found These are the steps I follow on grub boot prompt: kernel (hd0,2)/boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd1s3 -s module (hd0,2)/hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) module (hd0,2)/lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) boot Apart from these errors: hd0: drive not ready for command ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xff hd0: status timeout: status=0xff { Busy} I notice this: hd0: non-IDE device: CHS28894/15/63 But, mine is a Samsung 40 GB IDE HDD. Any other suggestions? Thanks, K Shakthi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd